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14 Achievable Goals for ASCs By Year’s End Here are 14 goals ambulatory surgery centers can work to achieve by the end of 2011, as identified by Joan Dentler, president of ASC Strategies; Reed Martin, chief operating officer of Surgical…

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, is the chairman of the board and CEO of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers; medical director of the Pain Management Center of Paducah (Ky.); and associate…

Adding a nurse practitioner to a busy hospital staff can reduce unnecessary emergency department visits, according to a study conducted by researchers at Loyal University Health System and published in the latest issue of Surgery.

The following column is written by Andrew D. Galbraith, CFA, MBA, director with HealthCare Appraisers.   Accounting Standard Codification 350 - Intangibles, Goodwill and Other Indefinite Lived Assets (ASC 350) governs the accounting treatment for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets…

The FDA approved Johnson & Johnson and Bayer's anti-clotting drug Xarelto for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, according to a CBS News report.

Minnesota Rep. Erik Paulsen's movement to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax had 218 signatures from members of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is the minimum number of votes a bill need to pass the House, according to…

A new study identified four subgroups of opioid users: use as prescribed, prescribed misusers, medically healthy abusers and illicit users, according to findings published in PLoSONE.

The FDA released a draft of guidelines for the continuing education of prescribers of long-acting and extended release opioid drugs, according to a Medscape report.

Commercial disease management models did not reduce hospital admissions or emergency room visits or result in cost savings in a study of nearly 250,000 Medicare patients conducted by researchers at RTI International for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Of the 560 complaints the Illinois Department of Public Health received regarding hospital quality last year, the department declined to investigate 85 percent, according to a Chicago Tribune report.